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VC511   Alfred Ernest Ind

BORN   16 September 1872

DIED   29 November 1916  AGE   44

VC Won   20 December 1901   AGE   29

Place VC Won   Tafelkop, Orange River Colony

War/Campaign  The Second Boer War

Name   Alfred Ernest Ind  No.   

VC Issue No.   511   Awards   VC     

Regiment   Royal Horse Artillery

Later   

Now   Royal Regiment of Artillery

Rank VC Won   Shoeing Smith

Rank End Of Career   Farrier-Sergeant

Place Of Birth   Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

Place Of Death   Eccleston Lodge, Eccleston, near Chester, Cheshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Eccleston, Cheshire, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   15 August 1902

VC Presented   26 November 1902, King Edward VII, Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Eccleston, Cheshire, England

P  Named on memorial at Royal Artillery Chapel, Woolwich, London

P  Plaque, St Mary The Virgin Church, Tetbury, Gloucestershire

Plaque, Primary School, Tetbury, Gloucestershire

By The Way…

He was a shoeing-smith in the Royal Horse Artillery, with a troop of pom pom guns or light weight quick firing cannons

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